Walking on Water

Tonight I am getting a sense of what it is like to walk on water, yes I said walk on water. When you’re walking on water the one thing you cannot do is try to figure out why you’re not sinking. You see if you look around and try to figure it out you will soon realize that there is no way you can be doing this. Consequently common sense will take over, reason will reduce faith to fear, and we will do the logical thing and sink. After all walking on water is an impossible thing to do is it not? Well no it is possible, after all we are living proof it can be done, it must be true, after all we are not sinking. Oh yes were a little wet, but somehow we continue to move forward, not just getting by, but getting on, even seeing victory in the midst of the storm. Somehow this works, everything we know and feel says that there is no way this can be done, no possible way to stay afloat, no possible means by which to survive, yet we are.
We truly cannot take any credit for our ability to stay above the turmoil, to keep from floundering in the waves that seem to endlessly and continually come crashing down upon us. You see there truly is no way one can survive these things upon their own, we truly are incapable. Yet somehow today, as with yesterday, and prayerfully tomorrow we will continue to persevere. It is He and He alone who is our strength, our shield, our comforter, our all in all , it is He alone the God of all creation who carries us through. It is the same God who not only allows, but also created the very waves that pound us who gives us the strength to defeat them. How does that make sense you ask? I'm not sure I know, and surely I fail to completely understand it all, yet what I do understand is that somehow we are walking on water not drowning in it, and this is truly the greatest mystery and miracle of all!
Tomorrow Dawn has another chemo treatment, they seem to be coming at us as a quickly approaching train, one that does not stop to let you on, yet climb on you must. Therefore you endure the pain you know will soon come, the injuries that you will sustain, all in hope that something good will come of it. Please pray for Dawn to not have any of the side effects of this terrible and yet necessary treatment. It would bring us all such great joy to have her return to her joyous, energetic, and loving self, for then we would know her suffering has ended.
Thank you Lord for the protection in the storm, for not allowing us to sink to the depths of despair that desire to swallow us whole, you oh Lord are our strength!
Gene